Génesis 19:14

14 Y salió Lot y habló a sus yernos que iban a casarse con sus hijas, y dijo: Levantaos, salid de este lugar porque el SEÑOR destruirá la ciudad. Pero a sus yernos les pareció que bromeaba.

Génesis 19:14 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out
From his house, after the men of Sodom were gone from it, and before the morning, very probably about midnight: and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters:
according to Aben Ezra, he had two other daughters that perished in Sodom, which he gathers from ( Genesis 19:15 ) , "which are here", as if he had some elsewhere; and so Jarchi says, he had two daughters married in the city. And the Jewish writers ^F17 speak of one of them, whose name was Pelothith, married to one of the grandees of Sodom: but it seems rather, that these were the daughters Lot had at home with him; who, according to Josephus ^F18 were espoused to men in the city, but not yet married; and on account of such espousals, as were usual in the eastern countries, Lot calls them his sons-in-law, as they were intended, and so the words may be rendered, "that were about to take his daughters" {s}; to take them for wives, and to their own houses, neither of which they had as yet done; for if these had been daughters of his married, and taken home, he would not only have spoke unto their husbands, but to them also; and would have been still more pressing upon them to arise and make their escape; of which nothing is said, nor of any answer of theirs to him, only of his sons-in-law, as they are called on the above account: and said, up, get ye out of this place;
that is, get up from your beds, anne immediately, and make your escape out of the city: for the Lord will destroy this city;
now, directly, immediately; therefore there is no time to be lost, but at once prepare for your safety: but he seemed as one that mocked to his sons in law;
as one that was in jest, and had a mind to have a little sport with them, to get them out of their beds, and put them into a flight, and then laugh at them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Pirke Eliezer, c. 25.
F18 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 11. sect. 4.
F19 (wytnb yxql) "qui brevi fuerant ducturi filias suas", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so some in Vatablus & Drusius.

Génesis 19:14 In-Context

12 Entonces los dos hombres dijeron a Lot: ¿A quién más tienes aquí? A tus yernos, a tus hijos, a tus hijas y quienquiera que tengas en la ciudad, sácalos de este lugar;

13 porque vamos a destruir este lugar, pues su clamor ha llegado a ser tan grande delante del SEÑOR, que el SEÑOR nos ha enviado a destruirlo.

14 Y salió Lot y habló a sus yernos que iban a casarse con sus hijas, y dijo: Levantaos, salid de este lugar porque el SEÑOR destruirá la ciudad. Pero a sus yernos les pareció que bromeaba.

15 Y al amanecer, los ángeles apremiaban a Lot, diciendo: Levántate, toma a tu mujer y a tus dos hijas que están aquí, para que no seáis destruidos en el castigo de la ciudad.

16 Mas él titubeaba. Entonces los dos hombres tomaron su mano y la mano de su mujer y la mano de sus dos hijas, porque la compasión del SEÑOR estaba sobre él; y lo sacaron y lo pusieron fuera de la ciudad.